To this end, the company is pulling out all the stops to ensure that its next flagship smartphone will be a success.

According to the latest rumors, the upcoming Galaxy S8 will sport an all-screen, bezel-free design that’s even more extreme than the Xiaomi Mi MIX. To achieve this all-screen design, the Galaxy S8 will supposedly have wraparound displays all over.

In addition, reports also say that Samsung will implement a virtual home button to allow for the all-screen design.

These are features that are widely expected to debut on this year’s iPhones.

Reports also say that while Samsung is targeting a March release for its new Galaxy S8, the need to undergo rigorous testing to ensure that the phone runs properly would mean that an April launch is more likely.

As part of a new patch that adds multiplayer bots and a new demon eyeball sport mode, id appears to have removed Denuvo from the game. As for why, nobody’s sure. Like Playdead (and Doom guy, I guess, if we’re going for game analogues again), id seems content to say nothing at all.

Again, though, for now these are only rumors. I’ve reached out to Denuvo as well as a handful of developers who use Denuvo in their games, but I’ve yet to hear anything substantial from any of them. If developers keep removing Denuvo from their games, though, I doubt it will be too much longer before we hear more.

LONDON – Police will be deployed to a small town in Mexico after 1.2 million people said they will attend a teenager’s birthday party in response to a Facebook invitation that went viral, BBC reported.

The birthday girl, Rubi Ibarra, her father Crescencio and her mother Anaelda posted a video on Facebook inviting “everyone” to her 15th birthday party on Dec 26.

“Hello, how are you? We invite you this 26 of December to the 15th birthday party of our daughter, Rubi Ibarra Garcia,” Mr Ibarra says.

He ends by saying that “hereby everyone is cordially invited”.

The party at La Joya in the state of San Luis Potosi will feature three local bands and a horse race.

The winner of the horse race stands to win 10,000 pesos (S$670).

Girls come of age at 15 in Mexico, and their 15th birthday parties or quinceañera can be lavish, but Rubi and her family clearly meant “everyone” in their village and the area.

It is not clear why the video went viral, but it became so popular that memes about it have flooded the Internet.

Mr Ibarra was shocked at the attention the invitation was getting, and wanted to keep the party to friends and family at first, but he later relented, The Guardian said.

“Everybody who wants to come, you’re all invited,” he said.

Local lawmaker Roberto Alejandro Segovia Hernandez said police would be deployed to the village and the roads leading to it in case the crowds who said on Facebook they would attend really did appear in La Joya, BBC said on Wednesday (Dec 7).

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at drugmakers on Wednesday by promising in a magazine interview that “I’m going to bring down drug prices,” sending shares of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies lower.

[NEW YORK] President-elect Donald Trump took aim at drugmakers on Wednesday by promising in a magazine interview that “I’m going to bring down drug prices,” sending shares of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies lower.

In a cover story for Time magazine, which named him its Person of the Year, Mr Trump said: “I don’t like what has happened with drug prices.”

The Republican US president-elect, a wealthy real estate developer who ran a campaign with a populist appeal, did not state in the interview how he would reduce the cost of prescription drugs. Mr Trump previously has suggested he was open to allowing importation of cheaper medicines from overseas.

Mr Trump previously had taken aim at other industries, suggesting an interventionist stance toward business during his presidency.

“If our industry can self-regulate on pricing, we can all focus on investing in innovative medicines and cures and move the pricing discussion to the back burner,” Mr Saunders said via e-mail on Wednesday.

Mr Trump’s Nov 8 election victory was initially a boon for drug and biotech stocks, as investors relaxed knowing Democrat Hillary Clinton, who had been critical of rising drug prices, had not won the White House.

The Nasdaq Biotech Index rose as much as 12 per cent in the two days after the election.

During the past few weeks, however, pharmaceutical stocks had given up the majority of those gains. The biotech index on Wednesday fell more than 3 per cent to its lowest level since before the election. The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical index of US and European drugmakers was down one per cent on Wednesday.

Chris Raymond, biotech analyst for Raymond James, said investors were unsure of how seriously to take Mr Trump’s latest comments.

“Nobody that I have talked to who is an institutional investor has said that they are selling based on this,” he said.

Continually rising drug prices have placed a heavy burden on consumers, many of whom cannot afford their medicines or face increasing co-pays on prescription drugs. Mr Trump has vowed to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 healthcare reform law, but that pledge does not address drug prices.

PhRMA, the largest pharmaceutical industry trade group, in an e-mailed statement said government mandates and interventions are not the solution for patients when it comes to medicine costs.

“If the drug companies think that they’re going to continue to have free rein to set and raise drug prices because of Trump, I think they’re deluding themselves,” said Erik Gordon, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

“Nobody who voted for him is in favour of high drug prices.”

CARS, PLANES, THEN PHARMA

The pharmaceutical industry is the latest targeted by Mr Trump. On Tuesday he took aim at a leading aerospace company, urging the government to cancel an order with Boeing Co for a revamped version of the presidential plane due to its extremely high cost.

He previously targeted the auto industry, vowing to block Ford Motor Co from opening a new plant in Mexico and threatening to impose tariffs on cars shipped back across the border.

The heads of those companies have sought direct discussions with Mr Trump.

Jeff Jonas, a portfolio manager with Gabelli Funds, said Mr Trump has brought the idea of drug pricing reform back to life, but added, “I’m still skeptical that anything actually passes through Congress, but the overhang is clearly going to continue.”

Len Yaffe, who manages StocDoc Partners healthcare fund, said that “companies that succeed in bringing transformative medicines to the market will continue to command a premium price.”

Some members of Russia’s parliament have sent a letter to the state communications oversight agency, alleging FIFA 17’s support of a recent LGBT-friendly initiative in England breaks Russia’s “gay propaganda law”.

And it’s not about dudes kissing. Well, not explicitly.

As The Guardian reports, last month England’s Premier League ran a weekend campaign called “Rainbow laces”, where players across one of the world’s most popular sporting competitions would wear rainbow-coloured laces on their boots in support of lesbian, gay, bi and trans players and fans.

This has upset some Russian MPs. The country’s infamous 2013 “gay Propaganda law” prohibits “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships” being available to minors. FIFA 17, being an all-ages sports game, is available to minors.

“Every state has its internal laws and order; they need to be obeyed,” former Olympic gold medalist (and current MP) Irina Rodnina said.

A Communist party MP, meanwhile, has argued that EA need to “introduce changes to the programming code or the age classification of this information product.”

Finally, Jeremiah ends up with the King of Babylon. Here, he is called Sheshach, which is a reverse of the Hebrew letters known as a “atbash”. Jeremiah used this a few times to hide what he was trying to say. After visiting every leader in the world, he ends up with King Nebuchadnezzar.

The Instacart lawsuit is one of several currently targeting so-called “sharing economy” startups, and they all get at the same question: can workers be accurately classified as independent contractors, or should they properly be designated as employees? In Instacart’s case, customers order groceries online, but those groceries are then picked up and delivered by the company’s shoppers. So, should those shoppers be treated as employees?

Classifying such workers as employees rather than contractors would entitle them to a number of benefits under federal law. This includes unemployment benefits, workers’ compensation, the right to unionize, and, most importantly, the right to seek reimbursement for mileage and tips. This reclassification would also incur new and significant costs for Instacart and other affected companies, including Uber and Lyft. An on-demand cleaning service, Homejoy, shut down last year just months after it was hit with a similar labor lawsuit.

The three labor law experts with whom Ars spoke agreed that this underlying sharing economy issue would not be resolved anytime soon. It may, they said, have to be taken up by the Supreme Court at some point.

“Instacart—like Uber—seems to be clearly misclassifying their workers,” Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings, told Ars by e-mail. She continued:

In the Uber case, thus far, no class action has effectively forced enforcement, despite any number of cases being filed in different state and federal courts and a strong case that Uber is an employer. Perhaps taking a lesson from the Uber litigation, this Instacart case takes a new approach: alleging misclassification across jurisdictions and across wage protection laws. A drawback of this strategy is that each state law has to be addressed on its own terms. This may—or may not—elongate and complicate the litigation.

In the new lawsuit, called Husting v. Maplebear dba Instacart, all of the plaintiffs allege that they did not receive reimbursement for work-related expenses, did not receive proper overtime pay, and “regularly” were not paid at or above minimum wage.

Plaintiffs were required to make themselves available to perform work within a predetermined range of time each day but were not compensated in a manner that guaranteed they were compensated at or above the applicable minimum wage during those hours. During nonproductive time, or time during which Plaintiffs were required to make themselves available for work but were not given an assignment, Plaintiffs were not compensated in any manner whatsoever. On various occasions during the relevant period, Plaintiffs spent sometimes up to four hours of a designated shift sitting in their cars in a grocery store parking lot awaiting direction from Instacart. Plaintiffs were not compensated for this time in any manner.

The San Francisco-based lawyers that brought this case also filed a similar lawsuit (Cobarruviaz v. Maplebear dba Instacart) in 2015. That suit remains technically pending, but was ordered to arbitration.

This new case, with new plaintiffs, takes into account an August 2016 decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that employees cannot be forced into binding arbitration, a private legal process that generally favors corporations and makes collective cases (class actions) all but impossible. The main difference, of course, between the 9th Circuit’s ruling and this new case, Husting, is that Instacart will likely argue that the plaintiffs are not, in fact, employees.

Rebecca Silliman, an Instacart spokeswoman, e-mailed that the company would not “comment on anything pending.”

As Ars reported at the time, Instacart spokeswoman Andrea Saul specifically denied that the 30-hour cutoff was designed to avoid providing health care to shoppers and drivers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), in which full-time employment is defined as “an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week.” The ACA, among other things, requires that employers with more than 50 employees provide health care to their workers and their families.

Instacart’s own office-based full-time jobs boast “comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage” and a “smorgasbord of food while you work, including lunch and dinner catered daily,” according to company listings. In-store jobs (the overwhelming majority of the company’s workforce) only offer “$15/hr flat rate pay” and boast “flexible hours—no need to work the same schedule every week!”

Miriam Cherry, a labor law professor at Saint Louis University, said the following to Ars in an email:

The issue I have the most trouble with here is that Instacart did do a major PR blitz during the first lawsuit, saying that they were going to start moving the workers into employee positions. Now it looks like they didn’t do that, despite all the positive PR that they received from that announcement. Maybe the plaintiffs in this go-round are trying to hold them to some of their promises that they made in the press.

ACCRA: Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake US embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the US State Department said.

Until it was shut down this summer, the sham embassy was housed in a run-down, pink two-storey building with a corrugated iron roof and flew a US flag outside. Inside hung a portrait of President Barack Obama.

“It was not operated by the United States government, but by figures from both Ghanaian and Turkish organised crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney practicing immigration and criminal law,” the State Department said in a statement released late on Friday.

Turkish citizens, who spoke English and Dutch, posed as consular officers and staffed the operation. Investigations also uncovered a fake Dutch embassy, the State Department said.

Officials in the Netherlands were not immediately reachable for comment on Sunday.

The crime ring issued fraudulently obtained but legitimate U.S. visas and false identification documents, including birth certificates at a cost of US$6,000 each, the statement said.

During raids that led to a number of arrests, authorities also seized authentic and counterfeit Indian, South African and Schengen Zone visas and 150 passports from 10 different countries along with a laptop and smart phones.

The statement did not say how the gang obtained the authentic visas. And the State Department did not say how many people were believed to have illegally entered the United States and other countries using visas issued by the crime ring, which used bribery to operate unhindered.

“The criminals running the operation were able to pay off corrupt officials to look the other way, as well as obtain legitimate blank documents to be doctored,” the statement said.

There was no immediate comment from Ghana’s Criminal Investigations Division.

Visas for Western countries are in high demand in Africa and embassies say the visa market is a big target for organized crime.

The real US embassy in Ghana is a prominent and heavily fortified complex in Cantonments, one of the capital’s most expensive neighbourhoods. Lines of people queue outside each day for visa appointments and other consular business.

The fake embassy was open three mornings a week and did not accept walk-in appointments. Instead, the criminals advertised on billboards in Ghana, Togo and Ivory Coast and brought clients from across West Africa to Accra where they rented them hotel rooms in nearby hotels.

US authorities conducting a broader security operation were tipped off about it and assembled a team including the Ghana Detectives Bureau and police as well as other international partners to shut down the ring.

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The top-earning young adults in Singapore are the least confident about achieving their wealth goals among millennials in a total of 10 markets surveyed in a new report.

Of respondents – referred to as millennials – here asked about the attitudes to wealth, only 44 per cent were confident about their financial success or consider themselves to have already achieved it, said the new report by Swiss private bank UBS. Millennials are classed as people who attained adulthood around the turn of the century.

The highest levels of confidence came from millennials in emerging markets such as India, with 77 per cent expressing optimism. Globally, 59 per cent were confident.

The young top earners here also preferred achieving experiences over possessions, a sentiment most prevalent in Singapore, the United States and Britain, compared with those in developing economies.

Dr Kang Soon-Hock, head of the social science core at SIM University, found it interesting that the research seems to suggest a shift away from possessions to experiences.

However, as the respondents were high-income earners, he said “such a response may not be at all surprising” and cautioned against reading too much into it.

•Background: University education and earnings in the top 20 per cent income bracket of their market.

•Minimum annual income per person: $100,000.

•Singapore: 213 respondents

•44 per cent here were confident about becoming financially successful or felt they have already achieved financial success

•Highest levels of confidence: India with 77 per cent

•Limited tech skills a barrier to success: 26 per cent here

•Less entrepreneurial than their parents: 30 per cent here most likely to feel that way

UBS said: “The Singapore economy is slowing down and the reverberations are being felt. The lack of momentum in the markets means millennials here are more attached to traditional ways of working, and increasingly insecure.”

The bank noted that the industries that are dominant in the Singapore market tend to be traditional, while the young adults aspire to work in tech-focused industries. But 26 per cent of respondents here expect their limited tech skills to have a negative influence on financial security.

Also, 30 per cent are the most likely to see themselves as less entrepreneurial than their parents.

In Singapore, 37 per cent said they considered their limited social networks to be a barrier to their wealth aspirations, compared with 28 per cent globally.

UBS polled more than 2,000 top earners from 10 markets, including China, Germany, Mexico and Russia, with 213 respondents from Singapore. Respondents were aged 18 to 34, with a university education and earnings in the top 20 per cent income bracket of their market. The minimum annual income of each person was $100,000.

UBS noted: “Millennials in Singapore feel their progress is stalling compared to their parents’ generation, and are more likely to want the stability of a permanent job.”

Mr Andre Loh, 31, founder of e-commerce firm ShopInSEA and former bank management associate, said: “There is a lower reward-to-risk incentive for younger Singaporeans to leave their comfortable jobs for the world of entrepreneurship than in the past, but I believe that Singapore is still producing younger entrepreneurs today.”

JERUSALEM: Israel on Wednesday (Nov 30) delayed parliamentary votes on controversial bills that would limit the volume of calls to prayer at mosques and legalise several thousand Jewish settler homes in the West Bank.

The votes were put off until next week following a decision by government ministers, a parliament spokesman told AFP.

Deputies were to take a preliminary vote on a bill to prevent the use of loudspeakers for late night and early morning calls to prayer at mosques, a proposal that has angered Muslims.

A first reading of a bill to legalise around 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank was also planned, but both were delayed.

The noise bill was put off until Dec 7, while the settlement bill was to come up on Monday.

Israeli media reported that the votes were put off because a majority could not be assured. Discussions were continuing on both measures.

The noise bill would prohibit the use of loudspeakers between 11pm and 7am. It would officially apply to all religions, but it is widely seen as targeting calls to prayer at mosques.

The bill’s backers say it is needed because the loudspeakers are a nuisance and can also be used to broadcast inciting messages.

Government watchdog groups say the measure is an unnecessary provocation that threatens freedom of religion. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is among those against the bill.

The settlement bill has tested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, widely seen as the most right-wing in the country’s history.

Netanyahu does not want the bill to pass, warning that it could violate international law and result in repercussions at the International Criminal Court.

Countries including the United States have also strongly criticised the bill and Netanyahu is concerned over an international backlash.

But he is also faced with holding together his coalition and not being seen as acting against the powerful settler movement.

DEFYING NETANYAHU

The international community considers all Israeli settlements in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the West Bank to be illegal, whether they are authorised by the government or not.

The Israeli government differentiates between those it has approved and those it has not.

The settlement bill has been pushed by hardline members of Netanyahu’s coalition, led by Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who defied his pleas not to move forward.

The country’s attorney general says the legislation will never hold up in court.

But those who support it say the move is urgently needed to protect a Jewish outpost in the occupied West Bank called Amona.

The outpost, where some 40 families live, is under a high court order to be demolished by Dec 25 because it was built on private Palestinian land.

The bill, however, goes far beyond legalising Amona and would allow an estimated 4,000 Jewish homes in the West Bank to be legalised, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, whose centre-right Kulanu party holds 10 seats, has been key and has said he will not support a measure that “harms” the country’s high court.

The statement was a reference to Amona and the high court ruling against it – signalling he would oppose the bill if the outpost is not removed from it.

There has been speculation that the bill could even cause the government to collapse – though a number of analysts caution that a compromise seems more likely for now.

Peace Now called the legislation “a grand land robbery, which will lead not only to the expropriation of 8,000 dunams (nearly 2,000 acres, 800 hectares) of private Palestinian lands but might also rob Israelis and Palestinians of the possibility of arriving at a two state solution”.

Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch.

Regardless, several popular YouTubers are up in arms about shrinking subscriber counts right now. In a video yesterday, popular YouTuber h3h3Productions alleged that “YouTube is not being honest with us.” H3h3Productions shows several screenshotted tweets from fans who say they aren’t getting notified about his new videos anymore. He echoes complaints from other YouTubers that his videos were getting less views by a wide margin than usual, and that when he uploads new videos, he apparently loses subscribers. His subscriber count is shrinking for no apparent reason.

Over the last 24 hours, severalother huge names made videos alleging the same problems h3h3Productions spells out in his video, affirming that subscribers are apparently removed after YouTubers post videos. Today, YouTuber JackSepticEye posted a video in which he claims that some content creators have lost 30 to 40 percent of their usual views, without any explanation from YouTube.

“This is people’s careers,” JackSepticEye explained. “To completely switch how you do things and not tell anybody is a shitty thing to do.”

In an e-mail, YouTuber Jim Sterling told me that the issue of subscribers not getting notified is years old. “YouTube’s notification system for subscribers can be utterly awful, and as with many problems YouTube has, fixing it isn’t a priority whatsoever,” he said. But Sterling was puzzled by the subscriber loss problem, which he says he’s experienced, too. He’s noticed that, when he posts a new video, it “costs” subscribers:

“I wrote it off as me just pissing off more people than usual lately, but hey, if there’s a reason for this that isn’t my fault, I’ll take it!” he said.

Curiously, when I reached out to YouTube for an explanation, they told me that none of this was out of the ordinary. A YouTube spokesperson explained that, although YouTube has heard concerns about subscriber drops, an “extensive review” unearthed nothing unusual going on “ beyond the normal fluctuations that occur when viewers unsubscribe to a channel or when we YouTube removes spam subscriptions to ensure accurate subscriber numbers.” The representative added that “YouTube never automatically unsubscribes users from channels.” They say there is no glitch.

Normal fluctuations to subscriber counts occur when, of course, viewers subscribe and unsubscribe; creators use third-party reporting tools to count subscribers; and spam subscribers are removed. Regarding notifications, YouTube by default only notifies fans about “highlights from the channel they’ve subscribed to,” the representative told me. Fans who want to receive notifications about a channel’s every upload can toggle that setting.

Now, this is a conundrum. Content creators say their subscriber counts and views are rapidly deflated while YouTube says it’s business as usual. So, to explain what’s going on, YouTubers are trading theories over Twitter and the video sharing site.

YouTubers, like H3h3productions and DramaAlert believe that genuine content is slowly getting suffocated on the platform, while YouTube boosts ads on the “trending” tab, or videos with more likes and comments. The conspiracy theory is that YouTube promotes sponsored videos or bullshit giveaway videos instead of videos with merit. When asked directly by H3h3 productions, he said, YouTube explained that they were promoting videos with more “activity.”

The mechanisms behind YouTube’s algorithms are opaque, but YouTubers want to be kept in the loop. Exclamatory videos proclaiming the latest YouTube injustice are almost a genre of their own, filling the communication hole between YouTube and its content creators. It’s their livelihood, they say—they deserve to know what’s happening under the hood.

I took the game for a spin last night on my almost-two-year-old PC and found that, after only one adjustment (turning v-sync on, as it was off by default and chopping up everything), the game’s default GeForce Experience optimized settings—normally not something I like to dabble with—did a real good job!

Here’s a video of me trying to put the game through its paces by driving like a maniac and panning the camera around a lot while I crash into traffic because I wasn’t looking where I was going.

Now for the caveats: is this game going to run perfectly for everyone? No. It’s a PC game. Don’t be ridiculous. There will always be those who through bad luck or bad purchasing are stuck with a hardware combination that will cause them problems. For example, me and Kirk are playing without a hitch, while Nathan is having some problems. But forums and discussions aren’t anywhere near as flooded with despair as they were with the original.

Is it as optimised as, say, The Witcher 3? No, it’s not. Even when you think you’ve got your settings settled and running smoothly you’ll probably hit points where the action drops under 60fps.

But are your chances good that you will be able to boot this game up and play it without any dramatic or game-ending issues, all the while enjoying something that looks pretty damn nice? The answer is a lot more likely to be “yes” than it was with, say, Watch Dogs 1, or Assassin’s Creed Unity. This game is fine, as you’ll find from benchmark reviews on sites like Guru3D and Techpowerup.

This movie has both an anime and a manga series that are related to them. Like most live action movies there is a lot that is cut out of the movie because it would just be too long to incorporate everything.

We follow Tachibana Mei (Kawaguchi Haruna) as she gets pursued by Kurosawa Yamato (Fukushi Sota). Tachibana is a socially awkward girl who has been hurt by people her entire life so she ha a hard time trusting people. Enter Kurosawa’s middle school best friend Takemura Kai (Ichikawa Tomohiro), he’s gone through the same things as Tachibana and can relate to her in a way that Kurosawa can’t. Who will she end up with?

I love the story and the cast was perfect in this movie. I’m a huge fan and I can definitely suggest this one to people. However, I will say that you should watch the anime and read the manga if you like this story line.

Final Fantasy XV nearly here, so it’s time to start imaging all the places the boys might go. Noctis and the crew no doubt have time to do a little sight seeing in-between all the bad dialogue and loot farming, so where would you like to see them end up on their quest to cement their bromance for all eternity?

Imagine it like a postcard, but with four hunks making eyes at you in every shot. It can literally be any scene, whether from another video game or a movie, or even real life. The world is your Adamantoise, as they say! Entries are do by some time on Saturday.

Here is the PNG file to help get you started, although feel free to use your own.

How To Upload Images — Instructions

1. Create your ‘Shop and save it to your desktop. Images must be at least 800 pixels wide. If they aren’t, you will be shot. I mean it!

5. Alternatively, you can upload the ‘Shop to a free image hosting service. I suggest imgur. Then paste the image’s URL into the field that says “Image URL.” Note: this must be the URL of the image itself, not the page where it is displayed. That means the URL ends in .jpg, .gif, .png, whatever.

6. Add editorial commentary and hit submit and your image will load. If it doesn’t, upload the image to imgur and paste the image URL as a comment. I promise I will look at it.

7. Large-size images may not upload properly, though we have seen some big-ass animated .gifs upwards of 5 MB. If you’re still having trouble uploading the image, try to keep its longest dimension (horizontal or vertical) under 1000 pixels, or the whole thing under 2 MB.